REMOTESENSINGFORAGRICULTURE
Soil cover by vegetation has the potential to increase the ecosystem services provided by agricultural systems. In particular the introduction of cover crops in crop rotations provides an opportunity to increase soil carbon storage. Remote sensing data can now be used to estimate soil cover rates, as shown in the visual below. For this visual, the soil cover rate of each field of the Limagne plain (France) has been estimated from the NDVI index calculated from Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 multispectral satellite images.